Interesting statistics

Here are some interesting statistics about the site.

  • There have been a total of 72,787,233 unique visits to this site since November 15, 2001.
  • There are a total of 390 experts and/or profiled scientists.
  • Now listing the profiles for 278 Canadian scientists in 39 areas of expertise.
  • 223 (80%) are men, 54 (19%) are women.
  • There are 273 scientists in 40 areas of expertise ready to field your questions to Ask-A-Scientist.
  • There have been 11,158,090 unique views to 278 scientists' profiles.
  • The oldest profiled scientist was born on May 2, 1797, the youngest scientist was born in December 10, 2011.
  • There are 4,514 answers from experts to 5,043 questions asked by our visitors.
  • The average age of question askers is 25.
  • Of the people who ask questions 33% are female.
  • There are 29 activities and games to try.
  • There are 253 questions in the quiz. Altogether, quiz questions have been answered correctly 255,983 out of 585,357 tries (44%).
  • For detailed site usage statistics go to the Sitemeter.com stats page.